Grandma Visits :)

Now that the pie filling is in the canner, I can do another blog post :)

My mom came to visit shortly after my dad left.

It was colder and rainier when she was her.

Ryan is in love with his boots and "wainckoat"

Stomping in puddles, a favorite past time

Adabelle's birthday party. Her mommy made everyone mouse ears. So cute!

Ryan practicing his "pit'chure" taking skills

Healthworks Muesum

The vegetable garden

Tomatoes apparently go in the ground?

Pushing the toy shopping cart around

Putting the skeleton together. Naomi tried to eat the bones.

A lesson in bone names from grandma

Each inch made a different tone

Becca trying out the balance board

Crazy psychedelic blinking light board. In this photo it is a piano. A terribly out of tune piano.

Climbing the "skin" rock wall (note the skin cells, hair follicles and pictures of mites)

Strange game. If you "push" on the digital blocks they move, but only when you are close to them. Ryan was bored when touching the screen didn't do anything. Becca is trying to see if it is shadow activated.

Pushing buttons that light up a brain.

Token Sophie shot. She slept in the stroller the entire time.

Grandpa's Visit

Well, I thought since I had some time while waiting on my pie filling to can... I would blog.
Here it is!
Grandpa Sasynuik came to visit (in August) but we won't talk about how long ago that was ;)

Here we are at the River Walk/ Fish Ladder

Us

Ryan and Grandpa

Looking at the water

Farmer Mawket, Swoller, Spinkle Cookie!

The Chocolate Factory

Getting ready for Christmas already!

I want those over there!

Ryan stole Jesse's chocolate. "I'm testing to see if it's safe".

Ryan and Grandpa

Ryan and the Big "Berw"

Don't I look cute?

Babies and Ballons

Ryan found my stash of balloons.
He learned how to blow them up and was excited at how they grow.
He wanted to share with his sister.
"Sophie, blow it up"
I told him, "Sophie is too little for balloons".
A little bit later I look over and see...

Luckily, she had a pacifier in her mouth.

Week in a Post

Here is our weekish in a nut shell

• In the amount of time it takes me to wash my hands: Ryan got Sophie off of our bed and onto the floor
• He also picked her up from the ground when she was laying on the floor
• Ryan peed in the potty
• He pooped in the bathtub (he called them "fuzzies")
  
• Sophie got shots and afterward would yell at the nurse if the nurse looked at her
• Ryan went to nursery without crying
  
• We stomped in puddles. Ryan wanted Sophie to stomp too.
  
• We went to the ward picnic

What a week!

Potty

After bath Ryan was standing there saying "potty, potty" and I was thinking "I do not have time for this" (because he usually just sits there forever).

So I lifted the lid for him and went to get the crying baby. I come back to him saying "under, under" (the seat has a little splash guard?)

And there was some wetness on the seat, but I wasn't sure if that was just from not drying him off, but sure enough there was quite a bit of pee in that little potty :)

Baby Sophie

Here is a quick post of Sophie photos...

Ryan came to the delivery room shortly after she was born. Here he is looking at his new big brother stickers.

Sophie with her big cheeks about two hours after she was born.

Juice, yogurt and grandma's cell phone. At first, he wasn't so sure about me in a hospital gown. He warmed up to the idea eventually.

Our little family is growing!

Ryan holds his sister. She's about 3 hours old in this picture.

Dad and his new baby

Ryan, Jesse's mom and Sophie

Such a serious little face

Mom and baby before we head home

Ryan wanted to read her a story. This is the picture in "If you give a Mouse a Cookie" where he draws his family.

Everytime I lay Sophie down on her blanket Ryan wants to lie down next to her.

Scattered like seeds on the wind

The end of the school year is always an emotional time for me...

Is it better to be the one left behind?

Or the one leaving?

Is it harder to think of the friends I'm losing
or
to think that the boys, who make my toddler's face light up when he sees them, are moving?

God be with you till we meet again...

I guess all of this leaving has made me more grateful for the two boys who I don't have to leave every year.

Happy Birthday boys

I love you!